so chris van hollen, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> good to see. best of luck to you in your negotiations to come. with that we do want to invite congressman peter roskam, a member of the republican leadership, the chief deputy, from illinois. congressman, good to see. hope you had a chance to hear what your colleague had to say, at least some of it. >> yeah, sure. >> also a member of the ways and means committee, certain element state senate with president obama, so you have a history there as well. first of all let me get you to respond to what you heard from chris van hollen, particularly on issues of taxes and this notion of ad hominem republicans should be prepared to extend the bush tax cuts for those earning less than $250,000 a year. >> well, i think there's ambiguity on the democratic side of the aisle, and then there's something that chris didn't say and that we haven't heard from the president's of ambiguity is who is rich? there's 250 description, 500, a million, a great deal of ambiguity. there's not been a clear discussion on impact o